CANCER WAIT TIME IS COSTING LIVES'

Sarwar alert as 3300 endangered by late diagnosis

- CHRIS McCALL

NICOLA Sturgeon has been warned that her government's failure to tackle the NHS waiting times crisis was "costing lives".

Anas Sarwar told the First Minister yesterday that more than 3300 Scots had been left waiting longer than the 62-day standard to begin cancer treatment in the past year.

The Scottish Labour leader raised the case of a mum from Edinburgh who waited seven months for a diagnosis, only to be told she had an aggressive form of endometrial cancer.

Anne Sinclair, 64, then waited a further five months for her treatment to start before she died in the summer.